TYSON REEDER
Office Baroque is pleased to
announce the second solo exhibition of Tyson Reeder at the downtown gallery.
Reeder will be presenting a
suite of new paintings and collages, a mix of colorful landscapes and
cityscapes, addressing both the natural world as a space for relaxation and
escape, as well as the city as a theater of human action. Reeder debuted with an
exhibition of figurative work at Daniel Reich Gallery in New York in 2002. His
interest for landscape and popular culture have remained constant and so has his
love for sensuous colors, “transforming the ordinary” in the manner of Pierre
Bonnard, “where the color becomes the subject”. Reeder is a painter of everyday
life, setting up his easel outdoors using painting as one would command an
iPhone to take pictures of buildings, deploying a vast array of academic as well
as self taught painterly modes. Found and printed materials like skylines from
handmade Chicago house music fliers show up in the paintings together with
denim, fish nets, broken pencils and fake plastic popcorn. Compositionally his
subject matter appears in distorted perspective, that he shares with
expressionism’s ego-oriented visual regime. Formally the work of Reeder embraces
archaic modernist registers, such as a vivid palette that he has in common with
the fauvists. Technically Reeder is known for mixing painted areas with pencil
hatching and dotted fields, making his work instantly recognisable as playful,
poetic, seductive and mildly hallucinatory.
Tyson Reeder was born in
Fairfax in 1974 and lives and works in Chicago. His work has been the subject of
solo exhibitions at CANADA, New York; The Green Gallery,
Milwaukee and Daniel Reich Gallery, New York. His work has appeared in group
exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago;
Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Karma, New York and Gavin Brown’s
Enterprise, New York. His work is included in the collections of MoMA, New York;
Rubell Family Collection, Miami and MMoCA, Madison. He will be included in the
exhibition Animal Farm curated by Sadie
Laska at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich in May.
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